Week of October 31-November 4

Halloween is Monday and that means our annual party and parade will be taking place!!  Please make sure your child brings his/her costume to school in a bag on Halloween.  No weapons please!  Costumes should be easy to get on and off.  Students will be changing in the classroom (we separate the boys and the girls.) If you have any questions, send me an email.

Conferences for home room students’ parents will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday.  Most parents have already signed up.  I look forward to sitting down with you all and having a great conversation about your awesome child!

Enjoy the beautiful weather this weekend!!   

Coming up next week:

Spelling:   A new spelling/sort list will be going home on Monday.  Completed menu/homework will be due on or before 11/11.  Please make sure your child does one activity from each column.  

Reading & Language Arts:  We’ll be continuing our first “argumentative” piece this week: “Please Buy my Haunted House!” I will give the students a few extra days to get that typed, so it will be due on Thursday, November 3.

Please keep reading and filling out the October reading log.  It will be due on Monday. .  The new November log will be going home on Tuesday.

Social Studies:  We will continue our Downers Grove unit this week.  We’ll be learning about Israel Blodgett, who had strong opinions against slavery.  His family home will be visited on our DG field trip in late November. 

Science:   We will be on hiatus until further notice.  

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class:  I’ll be returning the Unit 2 tests on Monday and students will be taking a pre-test for Unit 3 on that day as well!   We’ll then plunge into Unit 3 which covers multi-digit addition & subtraction.  This week’s focus will be on rounding to the nearest 10 and nearest 100.

Important Dates:  

10/31 - Halloween party and parade

11/7 - Day off (conferences)

11/8 - Day off (Teacher’s Institute)

11/23 - 11/25 - Thanksgiving break

Week of October 24-28

Happy Fall everyone!   I just want to remind you all to check your child’s assignment notebook (planner) every night and sign it.


A note about Halloween: The Halloween party will take place first and start at 1:10. If you signed up to donate a treat, you can drop it off in the office at anytime that day. If you signed up to run a game, you can check in at the office a few minutes before 1:10.

The parade will take place at 2:10. Similar to IDE, anyone is welcome to wait outside and see the students walk through. 

Costumes: All costumes are allowed except for weapons or make up. Students can bring their costume to school in a bag and they will have time to change into them. 

Conferences for home room students’ parents will be held November 1 and 2. Most parents have already signed up.  I look forward to sitting down with you all and having a great conversation about your child!

Coming up next week:

Spelling:   Spelling homework (3 items on the menu, 1 from each column) will be due on or before 10/28. The test will also occur on that day.  

Reading & Language Arts:  We’ll be writing our first “argumentative” piece this week: “Please Buy my Haunted House!”  Not only will students write about it, they’ll also be able to recreate it!

Social Studies:  We’ll be starting our Downers Grove unit this week.  Pierce Downer and his family will be introduced and discussed. This is a very exciting chapter. Further into November we will be taking a field trip to see all the things we learned about!

Science:   We finished Chapter 9 and will be on hiatus until further notice.  

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class:  This week, we’ll finish up Unit 2 on methods of multiplication.  Our test will be on Friday, 10/28.  A pretest (study guide) will be coming home on Monday for your child to complete.  Feel free to look it over with him/her.  We’ll go over all the answers on Wednesday.

Week of October 17-21

Happy Friday everyone!   I just want to remind you all to check your child’s assignment notebook (planner) every night and sign it.

Congrats to our class for 2 things:
1. They earned a ice cream sundae bar and movie for filling the marble jar! That will be on Tuesday, 10-18

2. They earned a pizza party for having the highest percentage of kids sell magazines!! Way to go!

A note about Halloween: The Halloween party will take place first and start at 1:10. If you signed up to donate a treat, you can drop it off in the office at anytime that day. If you signed up to run a game, you can check in at the office a few minutes before 1:10. 

The parade will take place at 2:10. Similar to IDE, anyone is welcome to wait outside and see the students walk through. 

Costumes: All costumes are allowed except for weapons or make up. Students can bring their costume to school in a bag and they will have time to change into them. 

Mrs. Mandru's MATH: We will be having another check point this week, in class, to see how students are doing. The final test will be scheduled for the last week of October-November. 
Social Science: Study guides were handed out for the final test on Chapter 9-weather. It is scheduled for Thursday, October 20th. 

Reading/ELA:  We are diving deep into descriptive writing. We will be starting to write our haunted house persuasive stories towards the end of next week. 
We will also continue working with Myths.

Spelling: The spelling homework and 3 menu activities are due Friday, October 28.

Important Dates:  
10/26- Early Dismissal 
10/31-Halloween Party

Week of October 17-21

Happy Friday everyone!   I just want to remind you all to check your child’s assignment notebook (planner) every night and sign it.

A note about Halloween: The Halloween party will take place first and start at 1:10. If you signed up to donate a treat, you can drop it off in the office at anytime that day. If you signed up to run a game, you can check in at the office a few minutes before 1:10. 

The parade will take place at 2:10. Similar to IDE, anyone is welcome to wait outside and see the students walk through. 

Costumes: All costumes are allowed except for weapons or make up. Students can bring their costume to school in a bag and they will have time to change into them. 

Mrs. Mandru's MATH: We will be having another check point this week, in class, to see how students are doing. The final test will be scheduled for the last week of October-November. 
Social Science: Study guides were handed out for the final test on Chapter 9-weather. It is scheduled for Thursday, October 20th. 

Reading/ELA:  We are diving deep into descriptive writing. We will be starting to write our haunted house persuasive stories towards the end of next week. 
We will also continue working with Myths.

Spelling: The spelling homework and 3 menu activities are due Friday, October 28.

Important Dates:  
10/26- Early Dismissal 
10/31-Halloween Party

Week of October 11-14

Happy Friday everyone!   I just want to remind you all to check your child’s assignment notebook (planner) every night and sign it.


Mrs. Mandru's MATH: We are diving deep into Unit 2 of multiplication! There will be a graded checkpoint on Wednesday that will be done in class. This helps to see how each student is understanding multiplication thus far. 

Social Science: We have finished up with Social Studies for a few weeks and will transition to Science. We have finished out second lesson about weather, and will start on lesson 3. The chapter test is scheduled for Thursday, October 20th. 


Reading/ELA:  We are beginning our descriptive/persuasive writing unit next week. We will learn different ways to use description in a story. We will end the unit with a fun writing: "Why should someone buy your haunted house!" We will finish off by decorating a haunted house for Halloween. As for reading, we will begin Myths next week. We will start with reading King Midas.

Spelling: The spelling homework and 3 menu activities are due Friday, October 14.


PE: If you child would like to be part of the Prairieview PE Bulletin board, please take an "action" picture of your child showing some type of PHYSICAL ACTIVITY that they are involved in outside of school.  Please get these in as soon as possible.  I will accept pictures as they come in.  Any questions?  Please contact me at tcushing@ccsd66.org  Thanks!

Important Dates:  
10/10- Columbus Day, No school
10/26- Early Dismissal 
10/31-Halloween Party